IPP Mail Archive: Re: IPP> Is that it?/ A tome from home

Re: IPP> Is that it?/ A tome from home

Jay Martin (jkm@underscore.com)
Tue, 02 Dec 1997 10:15:25 -0500

Don,

Some say that any press is better than no press, right? ;-)

This statement, however, needs to be publicly debunked by
the IPP group so that public expectations don't blow up in
our faces:

> The Internet printing protocol (IPP) will make
> it possible to print out documents by locating its Web address
> and simply pressing the "print" button.

There will be some implementations that might allow for this level
of simplicity, but doesn't it seem a bit dangerous for us to
let people think this will be the defacto norm?

...jay

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